It could have happened, if Helen Viola Jackson would have applied for the pension.
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AmidFuror@fedia.io 7 months agoLet's say he was 18 at the end of the war on 1865. That was 159 years ago they have to split between his remaining lifetime and all of hers. It's possible they both lived to 90.
Less plausible is that his pension would go to a spouse he married after he retired from the service. Anyone know anything about that in modern times?
zout@fedia.io 7 months ago
Alto@kbin.social 7 months ago
So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.
Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.